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Winter Notes on Summer Impressions
Translated by Kyril Zinovieff
ISBN: 9781847496188
160 pages
RRP: £7.99 £6.39
In June 1862, Dostoevsky left Petersburg on his first excursion to Western Europe. Ostensibly making the trip to consult Western specialists about his epilepsy, he also wished to see first-hand the source of the Western ideas he believed were corrupting Russia. Over the course of his journey he visited a number of major cities, including Berlin, Paris, London, Florence, Milan and Vienna.
His record of the trip, Winter Notes on Summer Impressions – first published in the February 1863 issue of Vremya, the periodical he edited – is the chrysalis out of which many elements of his later masterpieces developed.
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Important as an early statement of some of Dostoevsky’s favourite concepts, and interesting as an example of his acid journalistic style.
The New York Review of Books
With his usual comic and cruel candour, Dostoevsky concedes that his observations may be sour and jaundiced, and it is characteristic of him that he does not conceal his bias.
Saul Bellow
